Biography

       Anne E. Fernald is a Professor of English at Fordham University and a leading scholar of Virginia Woolf, feminist modernism, and twentieth-century literature. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale and a B.A. from Wellesley. Her books include editions of Mrs. Dalloway  for both Cambridge and Norton, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf  (a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2022), and the monograph Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader. She has co-edited the 13th through 16th editions of The Norton Reader and served as Co-Editor in Chief of Modernism/modernity. Her forthcoming book, Her Own Voice  (Beacon Press, 2026), profiles eight modern women who rewrote life and art.

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Awards

GSAS Professor of the Year, Fordham University
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Thomas Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Academic Advising, Harvard University
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7x Committee on Undergraduate Education Teaching Award, Harvard University
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'Reading against the grain, as she argues Woolf herself did, Fernald brilliantly illustrates the centrality of Woolf's passionately ironic dialogues with Sappho, Hakluyt, Addison, and Byron to her legacy as feminist artist and theorist. By asking questions others haven't thought to ask, by finding parallels that both surprise and illuminate, Fernald, like Woolf, revises literary history, substantially enriching our understanding of the writer and her world.'

Brenda R. Silver, Dartmouth, on Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader